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<DIV><FONT size=3D2> GRASSENDALE (St Mary) Liverpool</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>This is currently listed as a 'lost' tower, and having =
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John Fidler's inspection notes of 1956, I wonder if it still is, despite Do=
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saying in 1962 (Foreign Bells), that the bells were "rehung dead about=
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thirty years ago". In 1956, JPF said that "The general condition of the bel=
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and framework is the same as when I last visited this place...since my visi=
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electric driven chime barrel has been fixed by G&J, the old clappers ha=
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been replaced by newer ones" and goes on to describe the way the barrel=20
works.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>He "last visited" in 1933 when he found the ring o=
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bells by Hodges of Dublin, 1853, tenor 37.5/8" diam with "dirty, clumsy"=20
fittings,"no doubt still serviceable if the frame were good". It is n=
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good. Front four above fifth & tenor, rather a poor des=
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and not in a good state.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>This implies that in 1956 they would better have been=20
described as Unringable., and might still be so described to-day.</FONT></D=
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>Anyone been up to possibly the only surviving=20
Irish <STRONG>ring</STRONG> in the UK outside Ireland ?</FONT></D=
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<DIV><FONT size=3D2>DLC</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>